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Go Vote Or Else We ‘Thugs’ Will Be Stuck: Newest Poll Says Hillary Clinton Is Losing In Florida
Aide Tells Colleagues She Is
If you think this race is all sewn up, think again: This week, Bloomberg released a new poll that shows that Hillary Clin- ton is down by two points in Florida.
President Obama won Florida by less than a percent in 2012 -- and lost North Carolina by 2%, just as John Kerry lost Ohio by 2% in 2004.
And in the past week since the final debate, there is fear that Clinton could see whatever lead she had continue to evaporate here in Florida where it matters most.
The belief is that there cannot be overconfidence with just 8 days to go.
Despite the newest attempts
by the Republican Party to throw a monkey wrench into the wheel, Clinton has campaigned to the Black community, while Trump is throwing his few Black sup- porters out of his rallies, and adding acid to the insult, calls the brave few, THUGS, to their faces.
Recent reports have revealed Black people telling NPR that 2016 has been equal parts nos- talgia, disgust, and ambivalence. Many say they are faced with a candidate — Donald Trump — they see as racist, and another — Hillary Clinton — many just can't get excited about.
On top of that, the last several years have been full of the same storyline, repeated over and over
but with new names: unarmed Black people being killed by po- lice.
The poll numbers rarely tell a story this complex. Consistently, Hillary Clinton has drawn overwhelming support in the Black community while Donald Trump has found next to none. (One poll registered Trump at 0% with black voters.)
But several voters told NPR they are less than excited about this election and are worried about the state of American pol- itics.
‘Excited or not, Black people do not have the option to NOT VOTE at all, and must vote as if their very lives depend on it,’ says many leading activists and community leaders.
In Dark About Newest Emails
Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has told colleagues she was taken aback when she learned that the FBI found her emails on a laptop belonging to her es- tranged husband Anthony Weiner and doesn't know how the messages got there, a source familiar with Abedin's account told political website POLITICO Sunday.
Word that Abedin claims to be unaware of the cache of messages came as a U. S. offi- cial revealed that the FBI ob- tained a warrant to examine the emails in greater detail.
The disclosure of an addi- tional trove of emails that FBI Director James Comey says may be relevant to the Clin- ton email investigation has rocked the final days of the presidential campaign, with Comey coming under wither- ing criticism for disclosing to Congress last week that new work was underway in the Clinton probe as a result of the discovery of the new set of messages.
Late Sunday, already intense heat on Comey from the Clinton campaign and its al- lies grew even more searing. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Comey "may have broken the law" by engaging in partisan political activity. And former Attorney General Eric Holder be- came the most prominent fig- ure to join a long list of former
Huma Abedin was the chief of staff for Hillary Clinton when she was the Secretary of State from 2009-2013.
prosecutors condemning the FBI director's decision to dis- close the new politically sensi- tive discovery just 11 days before the presidential elec- tion.
The alleged newly found emails number in the tens of thousands or more, with at least some pertaining to the period when Abedin worked for the State Department from 2009 to 2013, first as a deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Clinton's and later as a consultant, a law enforcement source said.
Some of the messages could already be among the large set of messages the FBI pieced to- gether from a variety of differ- ent devices and sources during the yearlong inquiry into Clin- ton's private email server, of- ficials said.
Black Trump Supporter Thrown Out Of Rally In N. C.; Called A Thug By Him
KINSTON, N.C. --- Midway into his speech, the crowd sud- denly grew restless, so Donald Trump paused.
An increasing number of peo- ple began pointing at a person to Trump's right. Soon, hundreds of people who had gathered for his evening campaign rally in Kinston, N.C. last Wednesday , were frantically waving their “Trump Pence” signs in that direction.
Trump glanced at who his supporters were singling out: A Black man wearing a suit jacket and sunglasses.
“That's all right, leave him alone,” Trump said, at first seemed dismissive of what he saw.
He quickly pivoted.
“We have a protester,”
Trump declared. The crowd booed.
“By the way, were you paid $1,500 to be a thug?” he said, seemingly addressing both the crowd and the person simultane- ously. “Where's the protester?
Where is he? Was he paid?” (Trump has accused Clin- ton's campaign of paying pro- testers to disrupt his rallies after an online video sting by the con- servative group Project Veritas Action captured a Democratic operative describing “conflict en- gagement in the lines at Trump rallies.” The Washington Post's Fact Checker noted that Trump had “jumbled up a lot of the is- sues brought up in the video by Project Veritas” and rated the
claim “Three Pinocchios.") Somewhere in the crowd, Trump's security detail es- corted a man out of the rally as
the audience cheered.
“You can get him out,” Trump
said, making a sideways motion with his thumb. “Get him out.”
FBI Director Facing Possible Charge Of Wrongdoing Since Jolting Presidential Race With Alleged New Clinton Email Allegations
Three days after FBI Director James Comey jolted the presi- dential race with a provocative letter to Congress, an unex- pected dynamic has emerged: Comey is facing allegations of wrongdoing – and Hillary Clinton isn’t.
Let’s start with the latest de- velopments, including the FBI obtaining a warrant to search Anthony Weiner’s laptop for emails that may (or may not) re- late to Clinton.
The warrant came two days after FBI director James Comey revealed the existence of the emails, which law-enforce- ment sources said were linked to Weiner’s estranged wife, top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
The FBI already had a warrant to search Weiner’s laptop, but that only applied to evidence of his allegedly illicit communica- tions with an underage girl.
Some or all of the emails in question may be duplicative – there’s a “high likelihood” FBI officials have already read them – and Comey’s controversial letter was sent before the bureau had any idea about the messages’ relevance to Clinton.
When it comes to the political fallout, this is a highly relevant detail: as a Yahoo News report explained over the weekend, “Donald Trump’s campaign and Republicans in Congress have suggested that the FBI di-
FBI director James Comey, a Republican, is under fire now.
rector would not have written his letter unless he had been made aware of significant new emails that might justify reopening the investigation into the Clinton server.” Now we know these GOP suggestions are wrong.
In fact, even now, no informa- tion has emerged since Friday’s developments that suggests Clinton is in any legal jeopardy at all: she’s facing no new allega- tions, and legal experts agree that there’s no reason to believe any of these fresh details will change the FBI’s decision from July.
The more immediate contro- versy appears to deal with Comey himself and the letter that raised far more questions.
The FBI director sent a mes-
sage to bureau employees on Fri- day, defending his willingness to “supplement the record” by no- tifying Congress of the addi- tional emails. He added, however, that sending “a brief letter ... in the middle of an elec- tion season” created a “signifi- cant risk of being misunderstood.”
That risk was so great that the Justice Department urged the FBI not to take this unprece- dented step. Comey did it any- way.
The result was a rather dra- matic break with how federal law enforcement generally operates, which in turn has created all kinds of questions about Comey, a Republican appointed by President Obama, his mo- tivations, his sense of timing, and his willingness to intervene in a presidential campaign so close to Election Day.
Two former deputy attorneys general – Democrat Jamie Gorelick and Republican Larry Thompson – wrote a rather brutal piece in the Wash- ington Post over the weekend, describing Comey’s actions as “antithetical to the interests of justice, putting a thumb on the scale of this election and damag- ing our democracy.”
Many are calling for Presi- dent Obama to fire Comey after the November 9th election is over.
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